Aqua (color)

Aqua
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#00FFFF
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(0, 255, 255)
HSV (h, s, v)	(180°, 100%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(91, 72, 192°)
Source	HTML/CSS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Not to be confused with Aquamarine (color).

Aqua from Greek: κύανoς (transliterated: kýanos), meaning "blue") is a tone of the color cyan which is identical to the color electric cyan, one of the three secondary colors (subtractive primary colors) of the HSV color wheel, along with magenta and yellow. It is precisely halfway between green and blue on the color wheel. It should not be confused with the color process cyan used in printing, which is a deeper tone of cyan; this color is shown below as deep aqua.

In traditional print media, "aqua" is short for aquamarine, a distinct color from aqua. The words "aqua" and "cyan" are used interchangeably in computer graphics, and especially web design, to refer to the subtractive primary color "electric cyan". Traditionally that color, defined as #00FFFF in hex, or (0,255,255) in RGB, is called "cyan", but X11 color names introduced the alternative name "aqua". Later, W3C popularized the name by using it in the named color palette of HTML 3.2 specifications.

Pale aqua

Pale Aqua
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#BCD4E6
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(188, 212, 230)
HSV (h, s, v)	(206°, 18%, 90%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(84, 22, 232°)
Source	ISCC NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color pale aqua.

The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Pale Aqua (color sample #184).

Aqua in human culture

Transportation Planning

• The Aqua Line is a name used for a number of different transit lines around the world. Most notably, it is the favored color proposed for the Los Angeles Metro Expo Line.

See also

• List of colors